I’ve written elsewhere how enormously busy this president has been since taking office
less than 100 days ago. He drafted and moved through congress the most massive
spending legislation in the nation’s history, fired the president of General Motors
Corporation and sent congress a three trillion dollar budget to wrestle with while he
traveled across the pond to be wooed on the world stage.
What are the five things the president accomplished in his first major overseas junta?
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It was short and sweet.
Obama is the man!
I think he will become one of the greatest Presidents in history.
I heard on one of the MSNBC shows yesterday that Turkey modeled a likeness of Obama out of the famous middle eastern dessert - Baklava. It took five master chefs two full days to complete the task. And what did they call it? Baracklava of course! :-)
If Thomas Millington thinks that Americans are Goo-Goo Eyed over Barack, then he will have to include much of the rest of the world, as well.
Great article, sir! =)
I know what you meant Thomas...I was just messing with you. But my hope is that Obama is successful. My hope is that he will shine brighter as time marches on. My hope is that Obama can help repair the image of this country that has been tarnished by the past administration. You should hope for the same. If Obama is able to accomplish less than we hope for and less than we expect...he still will have accomplished MORE than his critics have thought he could.
You didn't bring Bush up Thomas...but if a comparison can be made between the most recent administration and the current administration...the approval rating that Bush took with him when he left the White House was 22% (by Americans or Mercuns) ....the lowest since the approval polls have been taken.
I too believe that President Obama is doing a very good job as President of the United States of America. He probably has one of the most difficult jobs on earth and appears to be up to the task.
I'm so happy to see people questioning Thomas's assertion that Barack Obama is some king of God. It is those on the right who labeled him as the Messiah and now want to attribute that label to those who support the President.
When I read something like, "Sooner or later the shine will wear off and people will begin to voice their displeasure . . . as they always do", I can read between the lines. Basically Thomas is another person hoping that the President fails, plain and simple.
Back to the President's overseas trip. President Obama is a man of extreme intelligence. I watched as he answered unscripted questions from journalists and the university students in Turkey. The man was brilliant. I couldn't help but think how ex-President George Bush would have responded.
No kidding!
'Basically Thomas is another person hoping that the President fails, plain and simple.'
I think so too. This is so incredible to me...that in order to prove a point...that point being a personal opinion that Obama isn't suitable to hold our highest office...one wishes to see his personal opinion validated rather than have the president prove him wrong. Even if I had no faith in Obama...and I do have some reservations about parts of his policies...I would hope that the president is successful and that I am wrong.
"Contingencies", America is what you call 9/11, terrorist attacks now. "Contingencies" fought not just to protect our freedoms, but to extend it to others, even allowing them to remain autonomous nations after conflicts have ceased.
Obama can not comprehend- with the mind of a "progressive- socialist" relativist- morally and politically speaking-- that the American way is the best way.
Mr. President I must remind you- unfortunately, that, America is a sovereign nation{ not a member of a {global community}. Therefore we are responsible to stand up to evil whenever or wherever our freedom and the freedom of our allies is threatened, so that we can " continue" to be the greatest force for liberty and justice in the world today.
Mr. President, stop traveling around the world and apologizing for my country. Mr. President, you are more willing to rename terror than to confront it, has made our people in this country significantly less safe an projected an aura of "apologetic weakness.
Barack, knock- off the How Bad America is TOUR!!
Jerry Yes we can, Yes we DID, YES WE WILL! P., Apr 8, 2009, 8:00am EDT
Yes Jerry dear, our simpleton culture loves celebrities for sure!
Really? Unequivocally and invariably..."the American way is the best way"? Always...period.
That is an astounding statement. Staggering.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. We are a member of a global community..both informally and formally as a member of the United Nations. America is a sovereign nation...but not an absolute sovereignty. Our government's power is restricted or described by our Constitution.
Stewart: "Yes, tyranny. A.K.A. our democratically elected President. You know what guys....I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing. And I feel for you because ah...I've been there. A few times. In fact one of them was a bit of a nail biter. But see, when the guy that you disagree with gets elected, he's probably going to do things you disagree with. He could cut taxes on the wealthy. Remove government's oversight capability. Invade a country that you thought should not be invaded but that's not tyranny. That's democracy.
See now you're in the minority. It's supposed to taste like a s#%t taco. And by the way, if I remember correctly when a disagreement was expressed about that President's actions when ya'll were in power I believe the response was "Why do you hate America?". "Watch what you say." "Love it or leave it." "Suck on my truck nuts."
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For god's sake guys. You've been out of power for ten f*%#ng weeks. You've got a mid-term election in twenty months. Pace your rage!"
Farmer, we therefore are a Sovereign Nation. We are obligated to follow are Constitution--- PERIOD! Marxist socialist like Barack, would love to make America just another country that towes the Global community line. NEVER!!
There is more, so sorry for going pass my limit, thank's Micheal for an excellent acticle.
So...is this sovereign god mentioned in the Constitution? I mean did the framers of the Constitution mention the fact that our rights were given to us...handed to us by a god?
That is an astounding statement. Staggering.
Farmer Slim aka Michael H, Apr 8, 2009, 10:34am EDT
Dear, what other way would you prefer?
YO-SLIM. I know how hard it must be for you Obama-cons- to have to think that OZ-Bama is not our Creator.
I would prefer an honest assessment of the mistakes we have made. Honesty is a tool of self improvement. If we cannot recognize our weaknesses, we are not living up to our potential....Honey.
Each day Obama sounds more like Rodney King- can't we all just get along?
That leaves open, however, the possibility that the document expressed the will of the same people who wrote the Constitution — thus, it provides knowledge about their intent as to what sort of government we should have. Leaving aside for the moment whether or not that intention should bind us, there are still serious flaws to consider. First, religion itself is never mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. This makes it difficult to argue that any particular religious principles should guide our current government.
Second, what little is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is only barely compatible with Christianity, the religion most people have in mind when making the above argument. The Declaration refers to “Nature’s God,” “Creator,” and “Divine Providence.” These are all terms used in the sort of deism which was common among many of those responsible for the American Revolution as well as the philosophers upon whom they relied for support."
One common misuse of the Declaration of Independence is to argue that it states that our rights come from God and, therefore, there are no legitimate interpretations of the rights in the Constitution that would be contrary to God. The first problem is that the Declaration of Independence refers to a “Creator” and not the Christian “God” meant by people making the argument. The second problem is that the “rights” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” — none of which are “rights” discussed in the Constitution.
Finally, the Declaration of Independence also makes it clear that governments created by humanity derive their powers from the consent of the governed, not from any gods. This is why the Constitution does not make any mention of any gods. There is no reason to think that there is anything illegitimate about an interpretation of any of the rights outlined in the Constitution merely because it runs contrary to what some people think that their conception of a god would want. " *
* quoted from this article: http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstatemyths/a/doi.htm
This country was founded by Christans-Pilgrims- no muslims in sight.
Obama got a lot less than what he wanted at the G20 summit...but this has nothing to do with a personal opinion of Obama.
"This country was founded by Christans-Pilgrims- no muslims in sight."
There you go again...can you substantiate this statement? I can refute it.. Read this..http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html
The no Muslims in sight part...read your history book micky...
American Muslim History
A Chronological Observation
By Fareed H. Numan (December 1992)
(Edited by Ishaq Zahid for islam101.com)
Unquestionably, Muslims have made an impact on the evolution of American society. Historically Muslims have made major contribution, e.g. humanities, the sciences, and art. They explored North America 300 years before the so-called "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus. They used the Mississippi river as their access route to and from the continent's interior. Here are a few glimpses of Muslim life in American History:
1178
A Chinese document know as the Sung Document records the voyage of Muslim sailors to a land know as Mu-Lan-Pi (America). Mention of this document is contained in the publication, the Khotan Amiers, 1933.
1310 Abu Bakari (Abu Bakar), a Muslim king of the Malian Empire, spearheads a series of sea voyages to the New World.
1312 African Muslims (Mandinga) arrive in the Gulf o Mexico for exploration of the American interior using the Mississippi River as their access route. These Muslim explorers were from Mali and other parts of West Africa.
1513 Pri Ries completes his first world map, including the American, after research maps from all over the world. The practicality and artistry of his map surpassed any from his time or before.
1530 African slaves arrive in America. During the slave trade, more than 10 million Africans were uprooted from their homes and brought to American shores. Many of these slaves were from the Fulas, Fula Jallon, Fula Toro, and Massiona as well as other areas of West Africa. These areas were governed from their capital, "Timbuctu." These slaves were sent to Mexico, Cuba, and South America. More than 30 percent of these 10 million slaves were Muslim. They became the backbone of the American economy.
1539 Estevanico of Azamor, a Muslim from Morocco, lands in Florida with the ill-fated expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez in 1527. Estevanico remained in America to become the first of three Americans to cross the continent. At least two states owe their beginnings to this Muslim, Arizona and New Mexico.
1732 Ayyub ibn Sulaiman Jallon, a Muslim slave in Maryland, is set free by James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, and provided transportation to England. He arrived home (Boonda, Galumbo) from England in 1735.
1790 Moors from Spain are reported living in South Carolina and Florida.
1807 United States Congress prohibits the importation of slaves into America after Jan. 1, 1808. Despite suppression of the slave trade during the next 60 years, slavery reached its peak between 1840 and 1860. The last Slave ships to be confiscates by the federal government were Wildfire, Storm King, Williams, Erie, Echo, Cora, and Binita, all of which violated the ban on importing slaves.
1807 Yarrow Mamout, an African Muslim slave, is set free in Washington DC, and later becomes one of the first shareholders of the second chartered bank in America, the Columbia Bank. Yarrow may have lived to be more than 128 years old, the oldest person in American history. Two portraits of Yarrow done by well known artists are on public display. The first, painted by Charles W. Peal in 1819 was done when Yarrow was 100 years old. It hangs in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A second portrait completed by James Simpson in 1828, almost a decade later, can be seen in the Peabody Room at the Georgetown Public Library, Washington DC.
1809 Al Haj Umar ibn Sayyid is enslaved in Charleston after running away. In jail, he is visited by John Owen and taken to Blade County and placed on the Owen plantation. John Owen later became Governor of North Carolina. It has been reported that Umar lived to be 100 years old.
1828 Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a former prince from West Africa and now a salve on a Georgia plantation, is freed by the order of Secretary of State Henry Clay and President John Quincy Adams. He was known to many during his lifetime as "The Prince of Slaves." A drawing of him, done by Henry Inman, is displayed in the Library of Congress. His life has also been well-documented.
1839 Sayyid Sa'id, ruler of Oman, orders his ship The Sultana to set sail for America on a trade mission. The Sultana touched port in New York, April 30, 1840. Although the voyage was not a commercial success, it marks the point of successful friendly relations between the two countries that continue to this day.
1856 The United States cavalry hire a Muslim by the name of Hajji Ali to experiment with raising camels in Arizona.
1865 The American Civil War ends. During the war, the "scorched earth" policy of the North destroyed churches, farms, schools, libraries, colleges, and a great deal of other property. The libraries at the University of Alabama managed to save one book from the debris of their library buildings. On the morning of April 4, when Federal troops reached the campus with order to destroy the university, Andre Deloffre, a modern language professor and custodian of the library, appealed to the commanding officer to spare one of the finest libraries in the South. The officer, being sympathetic, sent a courier to Gen. Croxton at his headquarters in Tuscaloosa asking permission to save the Rotunda. The general's reply was no. The officer reportedly said, "I will save one volume as a memento of this occasion. The volume selected was a rare copy of the Qur'an.
1870 The Reverend Norman, a Methodist missionary, converts to Islam.
1889 Edward W. Blyden, noted scholar and social activist, traveled throughout the eastern and southern parts of the United States, proclaiming Islam. In a speech before the Colonization Society of Chicago, Blyden told his audience that the reasons Africans choose Islam over Christianity is that, "the Qur'an protected the Black man from self-depreciation in the presence of Arabs or Europeans."
1893 Muslim immigrants from the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, etc. arrive in North America. They are mainly Turks, Kurds, Albanians, and Arabs.
(I've stopped at the turn of the century. My information was gained here: http://www.islam101.com/history/muslim_us_hist.html
Are conservative, dead in the water Republicans and neo-cons that blind? The answer is, with so much hate they are blind to the change happening before their very eyes. So be it, let's us move on to a better future and not look back, I got my ticket and I'm going to ride this Obama train all the way, all aboard!!!!
Enough is enough- ALLAH AKBAR!!! Nice-Bow, Barack Hussain Obama. Oh, i'm sorry Barry you said you were not bowing ----LOL!---WHAT A FAKE -PHONY- FRAUD.